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441111P, June 16.—The Union. w.Ma
held their hune meetingat the
home of .Mrs. R. Fuller. An inter-
esting .program, Christian Giving,
was discussed by the group under
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A bank balabee -of $200.02
• was reported from the Lions -
pee wee hockey tournament
here Easter week by Nelson
of YoungCan-
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the gate �rye,�ceiipt; were/�report-
,ed
eport--
, ed at.."$1�,0 5.50 and donations
( 1 r.°t+, receipts: .
of $1,,: ; ,50. ,Total expendi-
.ttires were .$1, .48.
There is a reversing falls at the
m,outh of the St. John River in
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sea, but at high tide ' the waters'.
flow upstream.
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didn't sleep on it 'himself. Tom,
cbesed h tobacco ,slowly aid:•
solemnly fora vg ; shod V,We
then spat' �;
• Ile said: "I've been getting Up:.
at diye o'clock 'ever since' I was •a..
boy. _o'clock
missed one single
morning until we got that soft
mattress, I slept in until a quarter.
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r" te,' ' ster
ne;ghfio-Mt-Wca Tin • iii •to flee'
what the matter was when they
didn't see any smoke 'from ottr
kitchen chimney. We took it off
and put .it on. the .spare bed. The
old straw tick- is good, enough.
The • truth of ;the matter is, , the
straw tick is so darned uncomfort-
able that when you wake up in
the morning, you either have to, get
up or stay in bed and -:either get
tickled to death or develop,a crick
in your back, When I retire from'
farming, I'm going to,sleep on, that
new mattress • and at up when 1
darned well feel like. it. Mean-
while, the old-• straw tick is my
sort of prod for getting' going in
the morning."
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•GODERICH BRANCH: BRUCE ARMSTRONG, Manager.
WORKIrG WITH -CANADIANS - YOUNG A -ND -OLD ALIKE- SINCE 1817
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FEATHER AND STRAW TICKS ON
OLD FARM BEDS ARE RECALLED
(By Harry.. J. Boyle, former news
correspondent *for The Goderich
Signal, now C.B.C. Special Radio
Program Director.)
I was at an auction sale the other
day.- A feather tick was put up
for ,,ale,,•and 1 was tempted. to ,bid
on it. The bidding would have
been strictly . for • sentimental
reasons_
Feather ticks were discarded in
our home (St. Augustine in Huron..
County) when I was a boy. My
mother had read some place; that
they were not healthy and with
visions of millions of savage little
germs coasting on the feathers,
she started a • campaign to get
"boughten" mattresses. Father.
labelled 'the whole affair a propa-
ganda campaign on the part of
mattress manufacturers.
My brother and I had the billow
ing feather tick and father and
mother slept on an uneven straw
one. There was no mention .-of
replacing•_the straw. tick.. I suppose
it was considered to be sanitary.
Finally, when* ',father sold a load
of pigs he came back with. a felt
mattress. It felt like a board to os
but it was dutifully put on the bed
in the spare room. ';
The subject was dropped for a
time, but mother started using
strategy. She moved the feather
tick from our, bed to 'the spare
room, the strw tick came to us
and father was outraged at having
to sleep on the felt mattress. After,
a`" -week ofmplainls abou
back he gave up, except for an
occasional reference to the hard-
ships of sleeping on rock.
The straw tick we inherited pre-
sented certain hazards. After the
billowing sensation of the feather
tick it .was strange to climb in on
•the straw one. It was hard in
some places and soft in others.
In the summer time the straw was
itchy and We Must have resembled'''
two frisky trout as we jumped
around in our sleep trying to avoid
the sharp ends of the straw that
hurt through the ticking. By'rea-
son of two boys- trying to burrow
into it at the centre during cold
weather, the straw tick began to
-dish out at the sides and wear
through the ticking at the middle.,
,Soon there 1}.as a (1,71;0 -like arran e
•
ment around the sides and no
straw in the centre.
In the summer time we bravely
tried sleeping on top of the dykes.
As sleep,came on we would roll
Middle into the and this developed
into", free-for-all. Holes developed
in the bottom and the straw started
sifting into piles on the floor.
Mother stbod it for g winter•, and
summer and then with the' light
of battle in her eyes, bought a felt
mattress in the village,and charged
it to. father. He never mentioned
it, acknowledged defeat, but • we
found it mighty hard to' sleep. on.
Grandmother used to. have the
softest feather ticks in the whole
neighborhood. It was a pleasure
to spend a few days at her house.
Climbing .. into 'bed was like
scrambling on top of a ISartially
filled balloon. That tick used to
just billow around you.
After you. were in bed grand-
mother would come tiptoeing , up
the stairs to bet ew .a. feather -light.:
kiss. She would place the flicker-
ing yellow lighted coal oil lamp on
the dresser, fuss with the blankets
and tuck in the monstrous tick.
Feather ticks were wonderful to
snuggle in during the cold weather.
However, summertime presented
certain, problems. If it was hot
you could•easily feel like. a chicken
being slowly 'roasted as the tick
swallowed you up, and since 'the
ticking leaked it • was not unusual
to .wake 'up with a plumage of
f- h13 chicken or -goose feathers "ticking
to your sweating skin.
My Uncle Toin'•was a straw tick
man. One -day when he was ship-
ping cream atthe station, the agent
presented him with a 'long flat
bundle. It • had been sent as a
present,,.from his daughter in the
city and turned out to be a spring
filled mattress. It was a real
springy job, designed for beauty
.sleep according to the tag, Uncle
Tom, was 'very proud of the mat-
tress, but after one night of use it'
was relegated to th6 spare bed-
room.
I asked him one day why he
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